TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality is everyone's responsibility
T2 - applying implementation science to residential child care
AU - Giraldi, Miriana
AU - McTier, Alexander
AU - Porter, Robert Benjamin
PY - 2021/9/30
Y1 - 2021/9/30
N2 - With millions of children worldwide living in alternative care settings, this articleapplies the learning from implementation science to advance the sector'sthinking around what needs to be in place to ensure consistently high-qualityresidential care. Building on the quality indicators identified by Farmer et al.(2017), an international review of the residential care literature (Porter et al.,2020) and focusing on smaller residential care settings, the article discusses how the eight implementation drivers within active implementation (Fixsen et al.,2005; 2019) can encourage a more nuanced, multi-dimensional understandingof what is needed to enable quality in residential child care. Greater attention tovalue-based recruitment of staff; the coaching of staff; the collection, analysisand use of meaningful data; and feedback loops from the practice level toengaged and adaptive leadership all emerge as areas for further attention. Thearticle concludes by asserting that implementation science can constructivelychallenge the planning and delivery of residential care and, importantly, do so ina manner that recognises the different contexts, settings and environments inwhich residential care is provided to children and young people internationally.
AB - With millions of children worldwide living in alternative care settings, this articleapplies the learning from implementation science to advance the sector'sthinking around what needs to be in place to ensure consistently high-qualityresidential care. Building on the quality indicators identified by Farmer et al.(2017), an international review of the residential care literature (Porter et al.,2020) and focusing on smaller residential care settings, the article discusses how the eight implementation drivers within active implementation (Fixsen et al.,2005; 2019) can encourage a more nuanced, multi-dimensional understandingof what is needed to enable quality in residential child care. Greater attention tovalue-based recruitment of staff; the coaching of staff; the collection, analysisand use of meaningful data; and feedback loops from the practice level toengaged and adaptive leadership all emerge as areas for further attention. Thearticle concludes by asserting that implementation science can constructivelychallenge the planning and delivery of residential care and, importantly, do so ina manner that recognises the different contexts, settings and environments inwhich residential care is provided to children and young people internationally.
KW - residential care
KW - children's rights
KW - quality care
KW - implementation science
KW - active implementation
UR - https://www.celcis.org/knowledge-bank/sircc-journal/all-issues
M3 - Article
SN - 2976-9353
VL - 20
SP - 115
EP - 139
JO - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care
JF - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care
IS - 2
ER -